• 文献标题:   A photochemical approach for a fast and self-limited covalent modification of surface supported graphene with photoactive dyes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SERGEEVA NN, CHAIKA AN, WALLS B, MURPHY BE, WALSHE K, MARTIN DP, RICHARDS BDO, JOSE G, FLEISCHER K, ARISTOV VY, MOLODTSOVA OV, SHVETS IV, KRASNIKOV SA
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, covalent functionalisation, dye, photochemistry, scanning tunnelling microscopy, density functional theory
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Leeds
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/aabf11
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Herein, we report a simple method for a covalent modification of surface supported graphene with photoactive dyes. Graphene was fabricated on cubic-SiC/Si(001) wafers due to their low cost and suitability for mass-production of continuous graphene fit for electronic applications on millimetre scale. Functionalisation of the graphene surface was carried out in solution via white light induced photochemical generation of phenazine radicals from phenazine diazonium salt. The resulting covalently bonded phenazine-graphene hybrid structure was characterised by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS), raman spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. It was found that phenazine molecules form an overlayer, which exhibit a short range order with a rectangular unit cell on the graphene surface. DFT calculations based on STM results reveal that molecules are standing up in the overlayer with the maximum coverage of 0.25 molecules per graphene unit cell. Rraman spectroscopy and STM results show that the growth is limited to one monolayer of standing molecules. STS reveals that the phenazine-graphene hybrid structure has a band gap of 0.8 eV.